Thursday, February 23, 2012

New from the Griffith Institute

Norman and Nina de Garis Davies Theban Tomb Tracings Project*

The Griffith Institute has now completed the project to identify and
digitize over 1000 tracings made by Norman and Nina de Garis Davis in
Theban tombs in the early twentieth century. These tracings were too
fragile for consultation and therefore unavailable up until 10 years ago
when the whole collection was rehoused and a systematic digitization
programme initiated.

High resolution scans of all of the tracings are available, for further
information please email: griffith.institute@orinst.ox.ac.uk

We would like to thank everyone involved with this project, especially
Ms Jenni Navratil and Dr Hana Navratilova for the long hours spent
photographing the original tracings and subsequent digital editing, and
Dr Jaromir Malek for his direction and patience.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.